Let me introduce you, this is my girlfriend, the Israeli boxing champion

"Are you here to pick me up, Archangel Raphael?"

The man murmured something, and finally closed his eyes with peace of mind, following their Majesty to heaven.

Something that shouldn't have happened happened.

A fire struck Constantinople, who would have thought such a thing?

"Why did this happen? Who is stupid? This is Costantinyeh!"

Fatih cursed angrily. He had seen the words "Great Fire of Rome" in history books before, but who could have thought that it would hit him now.

In Abrahamic religions, burning at the stake was used as evidence of sinners' crimes, and its earliest sources were the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah near the Dead Sea.

At daybreak, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and leave, or you will be swept away with the sin of this city."

But Lot lingered and did not leave. So the two men, because the Lord had compassion on Lot, took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, and led them out and set them outside the city.

When they have brought them out, they will say, "Escape for your life! Do not look back or stop in the plain. Escape to the mountains, or you will be wiped out."

Lot said to them, “No, my lords! Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in saving my life. I cannot flee to the mountains, or else this disaster will overtake me and I will die.”

Behold, this city is small and near, and I can flee to it easily; is it not a small one? Please let me flee there, and my life will be saved.

The angel said to him, “I will grant your permission in this matter too. I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.”

You must flee to that city quickly, for I can do nothing until you get there. Therefore the city was called Zoar.

When Lot arrived in Zoar, the sun had already risen.

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. He destroyed those cities and all the plain, along with all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

"The Lord said, 'The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has come to me for their sin, which is grievous. And even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which also like them gave themselves up to fornication and pursued unnatural desires, serve as an example, undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.'"

"After sixty years of the Latin Empire's Fourth Crusade, the former Queen of Cities has lost her former glory. She has become corrupt."

Alvin looked down from above with a meaningful smile on his face.

"Is this what you think? Since you are already dead, why not shine the brightest before you die? That is what you call... 'the time when the stars of humanity shine'?"

At this point, even a blind person could notice that the person in front of him seemed like a different person. He was no longer the idealist he had first met, but had become a completely different person from the inside out.

A person who seemed a stranger to me appeared right under my nose.

"This dying empire radiates not a tiny ray of light, but 'a sunset glow that radiates from all its spiritual energy at the moment of its final demise.'"

It is better to die in glory than to disintegrate in internal strife like the last Moors of Iberia.

But speaking of it, the Caliphate of Cordoba and the Eastern Empire are surprisingly similar.

Different paths lead to the same destination. Different paths lead to the same destination.

PS: Zenobia’s design is outrageous.

Aurelian, lead the Romans to charge again.

Chapter 228 What did he see?

Alvin was looking around, puzzled by the fact that there was no one to be seen - the situation was obviously very different from the last time he came here, when there were noisy coalition commanders everywhere, like fleas on a dog.

Alvin's intuition told him that the protagonists of what he expected to happen were gathering, but as time went on, he became more and more anxious.

"Why haven't you come yet?"

When a fire broke out in Kostantiniya, which Fatih had high hopes for, he ordered all the Yericheniyas to become firefighters without saying a word and to solve the problem at the source.

The Roman Empire, which once owned the entire Mediterranean footbath, had not yet completely dealt with the aftermath of the fire until the period of the Five Good Emperors. Fatih cannot afford to be attacked from all sides now.

"Could it be the local Greeks? No, if they were so united a hundred years ago, our ancestors would not have been able to cross the Marmara Sea, which is like a natural moat, and then erode the remnants of the Serbian Empire and the Bulgarian Empire."

After dismissing this idea, Fatih quickly attributed the cause to the behavior of his own men.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect something would go wrong at the last minute. I'll have someone fix this problem soon."

"Maybe this is what Rome has to suffer for a while, but it's not too late."

"Thank you for your good words, but in my opinion, conquering the Eastern Mediterranean again is already a success."

Fatih rode his horse quickly away from the Golden Horn. He was going to clean up his mess. After he left, Aku Hinako immediately took Ritsuka's hand and ran towards the Grand Palace.

"Senior Ake?"

"Let's go to the Grand Palace."

The Grand Palace?

Mashu looked up while running and saw that the fire started from that place.

"Are we going to put out the fire?"

"No, I'm looking for the arsonist."

"What do you mean?"

The three Chaldeans who had been celebrating not long ago now had a bad feeling, and Shion looked as if "our army was defeated."

"On the way back from dealing with Chimera, I met two Greek soldiers coming down from the battlefield. One of them had a broken arm, and the other had a lame leg. They looked like ordinary soldiers."

"Fatih would never have thought that the two people he had been thinking about were playing with everyone in this city right under his nose. But then again, who would have thought that Basilius of the Roman Empire and the special observer of Chaldea would actually go to the battlefield?"

Putting aside the fact that I failed to recognize him the first time, the fact that they actually went up and risked their lives was incomprehensible in itself.

But then again, he had seen even more unreasonable things in Tumubao - just a few years ago at this point in time.

"Can it be cured, given Chaldea's medical capabilities?"

It is obvious that Fujimaru Ritsuka is concerned about something different. The tremor in her voice makes it possible for anyone to sense her inner unrest.

“That depends on the extent.”

Before he finished speaking, Ritsuka took a step and rushed out. Seeing the figure running forward, the team fell into silence for a moment.

"I can't tell at all... With her conditions, she should have no shortage of suitors."

Romani was very confused in front of the screen and felt as if her head was getting heavier.

"And I always feel like there's something wrong..."

On the other side of the city, when Nero saw the fire starting from behind her, all kinds of memories of the past came to her mind. She associated the fire with Rome, and she quickly understood what was happening.

"Perhaps you are right, Boudica. After talking with you once, I am looking forward to talking with Attila."

"But not now. Now, I have to deal with some remaining problems."

The Rose Emperor headed for the next battlefield. Boudica looked at her retreating figure and said to herself, "Don't you want to go and take a look? That's the Grand Palace."

"I have this idea, but there are too many people. Just find a good seat and watch an opera."

The reconquering emperor said so with nostalgia in his eyes; on the contrary, Bashir seemed more interested in Boudica.

"And you, the victorious queen of Britain, seem to have decided to join them."

"A Victory Queen without a Victory Sword? I would like to meet the real Victory Queen."

She implicitly admitted that she would choose to join Chaldea. El-Melloi II also made the same choice, but he seemed to be completely worried about his student and made the decision.

"...I regret to tell you that Alvin Vasak is no longer listening to what we say, and the worst has already happened."

Scathach switched into Chaldea's channel very naturally. It seemed that she was already familiar with the use of these modern instruments.

"It seems that you have already had contact with him, so the instigator of all this is..."

"That's our special advisor, the 'genius' magician designated by the Clock Tower, Alvin Vashak."

A few minutes later, Scathach disconnected the communication. Romulus, who had been waiting for a long time, asked without giving up:

"Is there no way to convince him? To convince him to stop those crazy pursuits?"

Scathach slowly shook her head, looking helpless. "Back in the first singularity, I had already told him that his current situation was very dangerous, just like walking on a tightrope on a cliff, but before I could find a way, he chose this path himself."

"What he really wants is a Chaldea where everyone can unite. I don't discriminate against his ideals. I agree with them. But I can't accept his behavior. He is a little too pessimistic."

"Maybe he saw something when he was undergoing that experiment." Romulus nodded, beginning to understand. "Just like Solomon."

"I began to wonder what he saw at that time that led him to where he is now."

Scathach recalled the ambiguous words he said when he was looking up at the night sky in Paris.

"Scathach, you said that once all the singularities are repaired, everything will be over?"

"It's a bit strange to look at him this way," Attila said. "Although I haven't met him once. But I have seen people like him in the past."

She thought back to a long time ago, when she was not yet the so-called 'Scourge of God', and the half-Roman and Vandal child who followed her around every day.

"His name is Aetius."

Chapter 229: Unfounded worries...?

“Why did the Mamluks appear?”

Fujimaru Ritsuka is feeling a little numb now.

According to the Chaldean navigation, as long as they passed this intersection and turned left, they would reach a straight road leading directly to the Grand Palace. However, some guys who shouldn't be here blocked their way.

The Mamluks are the strongest force relied upon by YSL's Sword Saladin. Their powerful cavalry archery and melee combat capabilities have even defeated the Mongols. They are also what Fatih is currently wary of.

But shouldn't they be fighting back and forth in Anatolia now? Could it be that without anyone knowing, they have already penetrated the entire Anatolia?

"Take a closer look and see what you can see with your eyesight."

Even so, this important task ultimately fell on the shoulders of the genius necromancy girl Ophelia, and only she could solve this problem - in the Clock Tower, necromancy belongs to the necromancy and curse discipline of the Magic Association.

"Necromancy, once again the work of Lion Jie Jie Li. However, unlike the usual magicians, the materials used this time are very cheap."

Since a magician's body is still rich in magical power even if his soul disappears, a magician's corpse is more useful than an ordinary corpse.

In addition to magicians, the corpses of beasts with magical properties are also very valuable. If you use magical beasts, you can make very powerful magic gifts, which is also the source of the wealth of the Lion Jie Li.

"Well, rather than calling them magic costumes, it's more appropriate to think of these Mamluks as disposable treasures. As for why they appeared here, it's not something we care about."

"So, someone needs to do something at this time, right?"

Boudica appeared "just at the right time", as if she had appeared for this moment.

"I would like to remind you not to be too surprised when the time comes. I also hope that you can make the right choice then."

Mashu was pushed out of the battlefield by Boudica almost in a daze. Fujimaru Ritsuka stood there and almost stopped thinking. Only Aku Hinako seemed to have thought of something and looked back.

"Let's go. Since Boudica said so, let's leave this to her. We should always trust our companions, right?"

Boudica, no, those Servants who had stood on the side of Rome before, seemed to know something. She was sure that this matter must be related to that guy.

"I think we can talk about other topics now."

Several people sat on the ground. On Alvin's left was Constantine who was holding on, on his right was Romulus, Scathach sat opposite him, and the last seat was Altira.

"You can't be unaware of the consequences of this decision, but I'm more skeptical. Is this a decision you make just for this future possibility?"

Romulus asked, as both the leader of Roman culture and a top-level Grand Servant, he could not understand Alvin's decision.

"Just to test whether they can shoot their own partners?"

Then he made a gesture of pointing a pistol.

"If that's really the case, then I won't be forced to soak in formalin when I return."

Alvin smiled and opened something in his hand.

"As we all know, a singularity refers to an abnormal world separated from the normal timeline in a story. When a singularity develops to a certain extent, the history of losers who prospered in error based on a wrong choice at the beginning, the remnants of history, I call it—"

"Lostbelt."

His voice had quietly changed, and the color of his pupils had also changed, but they were so lost in thought that they seemed to have completely ignored it.

"...So Alvin, we are bound to fail today, right?"

"Yes, it's helpless, but we have to accept the reality."

"I can understand your thoughts to some extent - but I still want to beat you up."

"Don't worry, I've calculated that the fire will only burn the Blue Mosque at most. Hagia Sophia will be fine."

In Chaldea, the three of them put down their headphones at the same time, and began to discuss in low voices.

"Romani, how credible do you think Alvin Vasak's words are? I always feel like he knows a lot of things."